Tété-Michel Kpomassie

Tété-Michel Kpomassie was born in 1941 in Togo, into a large family: his father, a man of standing in the village, had eight wives and twenty-six children. He received only six years of elementary schooling and taught himself several languages by correspondence during his journey. Having left Togo in 1957, he took eight years to reach Greenland, working at each stage, and lived there for sixteen months. He then settled in France, in Nanterre, wrote articles and short stories, and often returned to Greenland as well as to Togo; at eighty, he said he wished to end his days in the Arctic.

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• NarrativeAn African in GreenlandL'Africain du GroenlandTété-Michel Kpomassie · 1980Literature